Automobile top dressing



Patented Sept. 1, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATIENT OFFICE.

VHEBER s cornea, or SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH;

AUTOMOBILE TOP DRESSING.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Hnnnn S. .GFITLER, a citizen of the United States, resldlng at 32 South Main St, Salt Lake City, in the automobiles and other vehicle tops as a dressing for rendering the treated surface waterproof and asa preservative'for the finish thereof.

The objects of this invention include an improved composition of matter for the purposes stated, and the combination of a plurality of ingredients in anew and novel manner whereby to produce a superior dressing.

These objects, and such other objects as may hereinafter appear, are attained by the selection of the various ingredients, their combination, and the manner of theirltreatment and admixture. I

The preferred ingredients and the manner of their unison is as follows One hundred pounds of mutton tallow, five gallons of castor oil, five gallons of neats foot oil, and seven and one-half pounds of ivory lamp black, or the same proportionate quantities of the above mentioned materials are placed in a container of suitable capacity and boiled with constant stirring, until the tallow is liquefied and a solution through which the lamp black is evenly distributed is obtained.

In a second vessel, five pounds of beeswax,

one pound of Burgundy pitch, and one pound of resin or the same proportionate quantities of the above mentioned materials, are heated until liquefied and then boiled until a thoroughly complete solution is" procured. This second solution is added to the first, and to the combined solutions thoroughly mixed, one hundred pounds of prepared flax is added. Prepared flax is obtained by boiling flaxseed in water for approximately two hours over a slow fire, the material being kept at a boiling temperature during the entire process. 7 The average temperature at which such mixture boils at the altitude of approximately one mile is 204 Fahrenheit. The jelly thus formed is freed from the flaxseed which latter are rejected.

Application filed January 28, 1924. Serial No. 689,168. 7

One ounce ofsalicylic acid, or the same proportionate quantities of the above mentioned materials, is next added and. the whole admixture is heated until its boiling point is reached, the boiling being continued :for one hour or longer. As a test of the suiliciency-of the boiling, it is to be deter- ]m ned whether the compound will adhere to ones finger. Until the composition will leave the fingers clean after contact therewith, the heating of the compound has been insuflicient.

The mixture when thoroughly boiled is next allowed to stand for thirty minutes and until partially cooled, when it is strained. After such ,straining, ounces of oil of citronella or the same pro:

twenty portionate quantities of the above mentioned materials, and varnish of sufficient quantity, as the judgment may suggest, is added thereto. The compound is stirred for completeincorporation of the last two mentioned ingredients, and then, while still in liquid form the compound is poured into a number of small containers to cool, the cooled composition congealing to form a paste.

The dressing is employed in the usual manner, that is, by rubbing on followed by rubbing in.

. The volume of varnish required in the automobile top dressing is relatively small, and the proportion is one quart of varnish to every hundred pounds of mutton tallow employed. Any white varnish of good quality may be used.

What I claim as new:

1. A waterproof dressing for automobile tops, comprising mutton tallow, castor oil, neats foot oil, lamp black, beeswax, Burgundy pitch, resin, prepared flax, salicylic acid, oil of citronella, and varnish.

2. A waterproof dressing for automobile tops, comprising an intermixture of boiled solutions of mutton tallow, castor oil, neats foot oil, and lamp black, and of beeswax,

Burgundy pitch, and resin, mixed with prepared flax and salicylic acid, and to which oil of citronella and varnish have been added.

3. A process for the preparation of a dressing to be used upon the exterior of vehicle tops which comprises mixing and boil ing together 100 pounds of mutton tallow, 5 gallons of castor oil, 5 gallons of neats foot oil, and 7% pounds of lamp black, to

which is added a boiled solution of 5 pounds of beeswax, 1 pound of Burgundy pitch, and 1 pound of resin, to which combined mixture 1 ounce of salicylic acid and 100 pounds of prepared flax are added, followed by boiling the whole until non-adherent, the resulting non-adherent mixture when partially cool, having added thereto 20 ounces of oil of citronella and 1 quart of varnish.

at. A composition for use as an external dressing upon vehicle tops comprising an admixture of a boiled solution of 100 pounds of mutton tallow, 5 gallons of castor oil, 5 gallons ofneats foot oil, and 7 pounds of lamp black, and a boiled solution of 5 pounds of beeswax, 1' pound of Burgundy pitch, and 1' pound of resin, combined with 1 ounce of salicylic acid, 160 pounds of prepared flax, 20 ounces ofoil of citronella and 1 quart of varnish.

5. The process of manufacturing an ex terior dressing for use upon vehicle tops comprising mixing mutton tallow, castor oil, neats toot oil and lamp black, followed by boiling, the resulting liquid being mixed with beeswax, Burgundy pitch, and resin, previously boiled to form a solution, said resulting solution being mixed with prepared fiax and salicylic acid and boiled, after which the resulting compound is allowed to partially cool, whereupon oil of citronella and varnish are added thereto.

I-IEBER S. CUTLER. 

